For an ending, Douglas and engineer Hank Cicalo decided to "keep pushing
everything up", adding more and more reverberation and echo until the sound of the music became
unrecognizable, before fading out the recording. Separate mono and stereo versions were mixed for single and album records.

In February 1986, MTV
featured a marathon of episodes of the series titled Pleasant
Valley Sunday after the song, which sparked a second wave of
Monkeemania. The reunited Dolenz, Tork, and Davy
Jones, already on tour, went from playing small venues to
playing arenas and stadiums in the following weeks.

In the season 4 episode "To Live and Let Diorama" of Gilmore Girls the
song is heard playing at the music store owned by Sophie Bloom- a
character played by Carole King, who co-wrote the song.